The New York Herald Newspaper, March 3, 1879, Page 3

~ difficulty of NEW YORK Hit WASHINGTON. “Chances of an Extra Session Ebbing and Flowing. OBSTINACY ON POLITICAL QUESTIONS. Disagreements in Conference Committees. Radical Change in Prospects During the Evening. THE PAYMENT OF ARREARS OF PENSIONS. Senate Amendments to the Harbor Bill. —_-_____ FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT. _ THE BUSINESS BEFORE CONGRESS—AGREEMENTS BEING REACHED BETWEEN THE TWO HOUSES ON APPROPRIATION BILLS—PROSPECTS OF AN EXTRA SESSION GROWING LESS—TIIE FEDERAL ‘ JURORS AND ELECTION SUPERVISORS. 3 Wasnixcton, March 2, 1879. Business late this evening is in a suficiently for. ward condition to get everything through in {ime if the two houses can come to an agreement on the po- litical measures. The Post Office bill, the Sundry Civil bill and all the others, except three, have been ‘greed on in conference, and will be enrolled atonce. On the Army, Deficiency, and Legislative bills there is disagreement in conference, and it is bot probable that there will be an agreement on either to-night. Both sidgs are willing to give up on questions of money, but the clause in the Army bill repealing that part of a section of the Revised Statutes which authorizes troops to be kept at the polls is resisted by the republi- cans and the repeal of the Supervisor and Deputy Marshal laws in the Legislative Dill is insisted on by the democrats in conference. It may be, howev@, tat the House democrats will not unanimously sustain the insisting democrats of the Conference Committee. There is a report this evening thit on the Legislative bill there may be a compromise, the democrats leaving the supervisors in the law and the republicans giving up the deputy marshals. The composition of the committee and the known desire of a majority of the members of it not to have an extra session makce such 8 compro- mise at least possible. There is evidently a reaction on the democratic sideof the House, and those who want to complete the necessary business and get through are more confident and more numerous than yesterday. The following bill, which has passed both houses and been enrolled, satisfies some democrats that enough will be done by this Congress if, in ad- dition, the test oaths are repealed and the troops prohibited from attending at tho polls, both - Of which points, it is understood, the republicans will give up whenever there is some sort of agroe- ment on the Legislative bil® Three bills seem to be purposely kept back to stand or fall togetirer—the Army, Deficiency and Legislative. The bill below allows an appeal from the District to the Circuit Judgé, and its effect on political trials will be to allow those condemned in the District Court to bo at large on bail until they can have a rehearingin the Circuit Court, so that they will not be deprived of an op- portunity to pursuc their usual avocations until Ginal trial on appeal. The act is to give Circuit Courts appellate jurisdiction in certain criminal cases, and is in theso words , Be it enacted, &c. The Circuit Court for each Judicial district shall have jurisdiction of writs of error in all crimival cases tried before the District Court where the sentence is imprisonment, or fineand imprisonment, or where, if a fine only, the fine shalt exceed the sum of $300, and in such casea respondent feeling himself aggrieved by a decision of a district court, may bap of to the opinion of the Court and tender his bill of exceptions, which shall be settled and allowed according to the truth, and signed by the Judge, and it shall be a part of the record of the case. Sxcrion 2.—Within one year next after the end of the term at which such sentence shall be pro- nounced, and not after, the respondent may petition for a writ of error from the judgment of the Dis- trict Court in the cases named in the preceding sec- tion, which petition shail be preseuted to the Cir- cuit Judge or Circuit Justice,in term or vacation, who, on a crgpeiere of the ee org and the questions presented in tho record River and pew allow such writ of error and may order that such writ shall operate as a stay of proceedings unter the rentence, but the allowance of such writ shall not 80 0] ite without such order. The judge or justice allowing such writ of error shall take a bond with suflicient sureties that the same shall be prosecuted to effect, and that the respondent shall ubide the judgment of the Cirenit Court thereon, and if the writ shail bo allowed to operate as axtay of p ings under the sontence bail may in like manner be taken for the appearance of the respond- ent at the term of the Circuit Court to which such writ of errr shall be returnable, and that he will not depart without leave of Court. Sr, 3,—Such writ of error so allowed shall be re- turnable to the next regular of the Cirenit Court for the district, and shalf be served on the Disirict Attorney of the United States tor such dis- trict. The Circuit Court may advance all such writs of error on ite docket, in order that speody justice may be done, and in case of an aflirinsnce of the judyment of the District Court the Circuit Court shall proceed to pronounce final sentence and to award execution thereon; but if euch judgment shall be reversed the Circuit Court inay proceed with the trial ot said cause de noro, oF remand tho same to the District Cofivt for farther proceedings. The Brazilian subsidy people dic hard. They mado 8 last effort in the conference committee on the Post OfMice bill to-day, where Senator Dorsey is reported to have besought the eommittee to Mow John Roach at least $50,000 for one year. This would be, it is sup- posed, about enongh to pay off John Roach’s zealous and numerous lobby without counting the cost of the magnificent excursion and feed he gave to an un- grateful Congress last year. From $300,000 9 yeer for ten years to $50,009 for a single year ts about as great a fall as that of the well known patriot who camo to Washington to ask General Jackson to make him Minister to China and who was finally willing to compromise for an old pair of trousers, This last appeal for John Roach creates laughter all over the capital to-day. Shortly after eleven Mr. Atkins, from the Confer- ence Committes on the Tegistative bill, announced that the committee had been unable to agree, Gon eral Gorfiekl asked that Mr. Atkins give the House an account of the “subjects of atea- greement, Mr. Atkins replied that the Senate con- forees had disagrsed about the salaries of the Sennte employés. Mr. MeMohon asked if the chairman of the conference had the right to give the informa- tion. The Speaker ruled that he way in order, and Mr. Atkins wont on to say that the difference was on the test oath, the deputy marshals and the supor- visors. ~ . Mr. Foster, a8 a member of the Conference Com- mittoo, said that the committcetould probably agreo on all but tho political question, and the same was true of the’ army conference, There are four questions now pending in conforence. One on keeping troops at tho polls; another on the deflcioncy of $250,000 arising out of the use of marshals imelections, The others aro the test @athe and the supervisors and marshals, On all thess the Senate insist. Mr, Foster said ho was willing, and #0 were republicans, to find a point of agreement somewhere, The demo- crats will not yield, end the Senate say tley will not yield; one side or tho other must yield something, and ho thought if dem- ocrats would yield something the republicans would do their sharo, Republicans, he said, bad dono all they could to bring about an agreement, Untess some point of agreement is denoted by the democrats tho republicans will sit it out till Tuesday, {Cries of “Question!") ® Mr. Hale said that there was a disposition to bring tho matter to atest here, but he hoped not, and that the House would reappoint a conferenct, and that | wines known as imitatic this would rake a reasonable effort to come to some accord, He did not believe that the democrats would insist on anything more than a fair adjust- ment, which the republicans would give, Mr. Atkins said ho did not in his remarks allude to polities, He wished to come to & conclusion on the matter in dispute. The country must in the end de- cide, if the two houses could not come to an agree- ment. Mr. Caldwell, of Tennessee, said the democrats on the Army Conference Committee were ready to agree toeverything in that bill except keeping troops at the polls, and that he would not yield and the demo- crats woul! not yield, yet the Senate insisted on that. The House thereupon insisted, and asked for @ further conference. Mr. Atkins thereupon said the Sundry Civil bill could be brought into the House inaide of an hour. Mr. McMahon moved to adjourn until nine o'clock to-morrow. Members exclaimed that the Senate had just passed the River and Harbor bill, which would presently be sentiu. Mr. Garficld moved to take a recess till one A. M. #,¥inally, at haif-past twelve, the House determined on 4 recess until half-past ten to-morrow. Conversation with influential members and Sena- tors during the last hour shows that the proba- Dilities of an extra session are rapidly incroasing. There is less likelihood of an agreement at this time on the politteal measures than there was early in theevening. There is animpression that some leading Republican Senators desire an extra session of Congress, and it is admitted that the different confer- ence committees are further at this time from an agreoment than they were at the beginning.. Neither party is ready to surrender anything, and opposition to harmony and mutual concessions has appeared in unexpected quarters. ‘In short, it remains true that an extra session is highly probable and almost ccr- tain, and tho adjournment of the House until to- morrow morning increases this probability. FROM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT. ‘WasnrnoTon, March 2, 1879. THE RIVER AND HARBOR BILL PASSED BY THE SENATE—ARREARS OF PENSIONS. In the consideration of the River and Harbor bill to-night by the Senste a number of amendments reported by the Commities on Commerce, increasing the appropristions for rivers and harbors, wera agreed to. Among them were amendments increasing the appropriation for Harlem River from $100,000 to $200,000, and for Flushing Bay froth $10,000 to $20,000. A number of amendments offered by Senators: also increasing appropriations provided for by the House were adopted. In the comrso of the debate Mr. Edmunds moved to strike out all after the enacting clause and insert that the sum of $2,000,000 be ap- propriated for the fiscal year ending June, 30, 1880, for the repair, preservationand completion of such works on rivers and harbors as may be made most serviceable to the interests of commerce, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, who is required to report all the expenditures in detail at the next session of Congress. This was rejected, and, after prolonged debate, the Senate sed the bill by a vote of 29 yeas to 18 nays. X ‘The Senate then proceeded to tho consideration o! the bill for the payment of arrears of pensions and the amendment of Mr, Shields, placing the soldicrs and sailors of the Mexican war on the samo footing with thoge of the war of 1812, was, on motion of Mr. Windom, reconsidered. GREENBACK ACTIVITY—MOVEMENT TO COMPEL DEMOCRATIC RECOGNITION IN NEW YORK-— HOW TSE SITUATION IS COMPLICATED BY MR. HENDRICES. The greenbackors sre more actively at work for the ensuing political campaign than most people be- lieve. Not only has a compact organization been perfected of the distinct greenback representatives in tho Forty-sixth Congress, with a view to con- trolling the Speakership and the House com- mittees, but « plan has been arranged for domonstration in New York ‘State which will compel democratic recognition of the greonback issue tm the fall election therefor State officers. This plan, as far ay agreed upon, is to bold a State Convention at Albany or Syracuse early in the summer, or at least not later than the Ist of August, and to nominate Sunset Cox for Gov- ernor, that gentloman having within the past few. years changed his position on the moncy question and being now a pronounced “greenbacker. * The expectation is that with Mr, Cox already in the field tho regular democrats will, at their State Con- vention, be forctd torindorse him or to run the risk of defeat for both wings of the party should they put somebody else on the regutar ticket for Governer. To make the cotnplication sti!l more perplexing, it 4s asserted here by intimate personal friends of Mr. Hendricks that he will not consent a second time to take second place on the Presidential ticket. These frionds say that this decision on the part of Mr. Hendricks was reached by him at the conclusion of tho business of the St. Louis Convention, but was only recently doclared by him in view of the movement to renominate in J450 the ticket of 1876, The sentiments of Mr. Hndricks on tho financial question are in harmony with those of the majority of the Western aud Southern democracy, and it is claimed that, if there is to be any vindica- tion next year of the result of the last Presidential election, it can be more surely attained with Mr. Hendricks at the head of the ticket. pine anroOaaet GENERAL WASHINGTON DESPATCHES. Wasumixotox, March 2, 1879, FORTIFIED AND ADULTERATED WINES AND LIQUORS—HOW THE GOVERNMENT IS DE- FYRAUDED IN ITS REVENUES—INFORMATION FURNISSED BY THE SENATE FINANCE CoM- MITTEE. Senator Jones, of Nevada in behalf of the Finance Committee, has reported favorably upon Senator Sar- gont’s resoluitions directing the Secretary of State and tho Treasury to collect and furnish to the Senate certain classes of information concerning wines and liquors, with a view to the protection of native pro- ducts and possible changes in our system of tariff taxation. The report, afier mentioning the fact that the existing law makes no distinction between natural and fortified wines, says:— Natural wines, which are the products of simple fermentation of grape jnice, according to the best authorities, sekiom contain more then thirteen per cent of absolute alcohol. Those which cc teen per cent are rerely found, Tho na‘ generally consumed contain less than t cont. ‘ines containing more than thirteon p: with few if any exceptions, owe the excess oi al to an addition of distilled epirite. , The British aud French laws aro then referred to by the committees to show that in England and France alcoholized wines are taxed for the excess of elcoho! added in fortification, and the report con- tinues :—~ In France the questions growing out of the forti- a of wines -have been numerous, and have gaged the most serious attention of the government, the Academy of Sefence and the medical’ profersion, ‘The law throws rey, 2eueieae obstacle in the way of the which had become common, of adding spirits to wine intended for consumption tn France, bat permits the unlimited fortification of wines for exportation, the «pirits or alcohols used for such Purpose bei from all taxation, The govern- Prohibits the mixture of any foreign alcohols with French wines except when such mixturo is to -bo exported. Foreign wines imported under tho conditions of the general tariff and containing more than fourteen per cent of al- cohol must the duty on alcohol for the quantity wo ot so pos ve com ive statement of the strengths of wine imy on would show to what extent spicitn or al hols have been added to thei, The committee is formed that large quantities of white and red wines are imported, one-fifth of the volume of which is roof spirits, in addition to the natural strength of he wine or to which from ten to twelve per cent. of abso) alcohol has been added. Sueh fortified wines not exceeding in strength twenty-four per cent of ai- cohol are admitted in wood at the ot duty of forty cents per gallon. The addition of aleohol is per+ mitted tree of taxation by France and other foreiga countries where the wines are to be exported. ‘Tha Unitod States tariff of only forty centa per gallon upon tho apirits thus contained in imported wines operates, therefore, to the great disadvantage of pro- ducers of «weet Amcrican wines, sherries, &., when the latter require to be fortiied, because the Ameri- ean producer ix required to pay upon alt domestic spirits the Interaal Revenue rate of tax of ninety cents per proof gallon, being fifty cents more than the Wx imposed by the tariff on the spirits contained in the imported wines, This discrimination in (avor of a torcign industry encourages tho importation of a clase of ALD, MONDAY, of port, sherry, produced in Marseijles, Cette, Hamburg and 0 places, and, while discouraging American industry of the same nature, results in a considerable Joss to the public revenues. It is desirable that the Senate should know to what extent the public revenues may be affected by the adoption of a system of taxation similar to that of France, whereby tho excess of alcohol in fortified wines may be subjected to the ordinary tax on spirits. if this plan should not be considered favorable to the col- lection of revenue and to commerce the commitics is of the opinion that the Secretary should be directed to report upon the propriety of permitting the proper use of brandy in fortitying native sweet wines and liquors upon payment of a reduced internal rey- enue tax, so as to afford equal advantages to the American industries that are granted to the foreiyu. ‘The attention of the government has been called ‘on several occasions to the necessity of protecting consumers against the entry of falsified and adul- terated wines and liquors, especially through the re- ports of officers of the consular service. The goy- ernment of France has for several years been waging vigorous warfare against falsiflers and adulterators of wines cirenlating in that country, of which no- tice has been made in the reports of American con- suls; but nasassurance has been given that wines e: ported to onr ports are- entirely free from tae adulterations which are more easily de- tected in wines when circulated in France, The practices of adulterating with fuchsine and other deleterious matters are known to exist in Spain and may possibly exist in other countries; but we have no authentic information to determine to what ex- tent such practices prevail, nor to what degree they muy affect the wines and liquors imported into this country. some proper and efficient supervision over the iin- rted axticles skould be exercised to prevent tho mtcoduction of the articles intended for consump- tion which may contain poisonous or injarious in- gredients unnaturally compounded with fermented and alcoholic liquors. A report from the Secretary of the Treasury goncerning the facilities poesessed or required by the Treasury Department for the pre- vention of such evils is much to be desired. It may be possible, also, to devise proper and effi- cient methods for ‘tho prevention of impositions practised under cover of false labels, The invoices of wines and spirits imported show in many cascs remarkable discrepancies between the declared values of the articles shipped at foreign ports and the mar- ket values of the same in such ports, aflording pre- sumptive evidence of fraudulent labels or marks designating the contents of bottles or casks, ‘The intormation called for by the resolution relat- ing to internal systems of taxation affecting Ameri- can exports would, if obtained, be especially impor- tant for the use of the Senate when considcring any propositions for commercial treaties or other ques- tions relating to commerce. In France all exports of American wines, alcohols and many other articles ot consumption are subject to the internal system of taxation in addition to the general tariff. A statenfent is given showing that wines in wood upon entering Paris are taxed, in addi- tion to the geuesal tariff ,23f. per hectolitre, containing alittle more than enty-six American gallons:and wives in bottle, the rate of Sul. apirtts in wood 266f., per hectol pirits in bottl B28f. Fortified wipes are tuxed also for the excess of alcohol above fourtecn per cent. The committee say :—- The rates vary in different French cities. They show a discrimination against bottled wines end spirits. An octroi tax is also imposed upon empty bottles. It is important that complete informa- tion on these subjects should be obtained, not only relating to France, but also to uther countries with which we have commercial relations, in order that it may be shown to what extent local industries are protected against American exports By taxes other than those under general tariff laws. The exports of American alcohols have increased rapidly in recent years. During’ 1877 9,000 barrels were received in the port of Marsvilles. This amount was increased in the first mine months of 1878 to) |= 31,000 barrels, but an examina tion of the French customs reports shows that with the exception of a trifling quantity these alcohols wer all re-exported. ‘he interests of American commerce require that it should be known what countries become the real consumers, and in what manner they are treated aftef leaving the United States before reaching their destinatious. ‘American alcohols come into competition in foreign ports with French, German and Belgian products, and it is therefore important to know the nature and extent of such competition: LIABILITIES AND ASSETS OF THE TREASURY. ‘The following is a statement of the liabilities and assets of the Treasury :— LIABILITIES. Fund for redemption of certi posit, June 8, 1872. Post Office Department acopun Disbursing officers’ balances... 15,194,052 Fund for redemption of notes of nai banks “failed,” “in liquidation” and “reducing circulation”’....... sees 11,740,001 Undistributed assets of failed national WMOES Lei csclocdcedeeseedb-dssdeeersy” TSTO0O0 Five per cent fand for redemption of ha- tional bank notes........... sseeee 13,378,633 Fund for redemption of national benk gold note: SPER OE Ss eae 1,720 and minor coin redemption ac- . 4,840 +, 168,434 Interest account, Pacific railroads and L. and P, Canal Company...... ....0. eee+e 300 Treasurer United States, agent for paying interest on District of Columbia bonds. 58,864 Treasurer's transfer checks outstanding.. 8,313,411 Treasurer's general aecount— Speqial fund for redemption ‘of fractional currency.... $9,519,742 Interest due and unpaid...” 6,622,543 Called bonds and interest. 6,699,294 Coin certificates. .. +. 19,037,680 Balance, including bullio: LUNG... scersereseeeceeeee 397,003,409 ——— 436,997,665 oe £$530,196,550 Total.... Gold coin and bullion Standard silver dollars. . Silver coin and bullion. . Gold certifi ee . Silver certificates: . United States notes. . United States notes (special fund for re- demption of fractional currency) € National benk notes....... 8,519,741 10,149,409 National bank gold notes... ee 92,815 Fractional currency....... eeee 128,120 Deposits held by national bank depositad, res pee oe 249,596,205, Nickels and minor coin seeees 1,451,618 New York and San Francisco exchange... 946,000, One and two year notes, Ac.... seeeee 357 emed certificates of deposit, June 3, 1872 sese 9,425,000 Quarterly interest checks and coin ‘cou- WOMAN. ic cccnsnt ativncsttodiotohe oat Reyistered and unclaimed interest paid... United states bonds and interest......00.2 Speaker's ticates, Forty-fifth Con gress 36 Deficits, unavai Total... .OLD HICKORY'S VETERANS. [From the New Orleans Democrat, Feb. 23.] The military pageant of yesterday must havo | stirred tho hearts of the few veterans now left who #0 gallantly defended our elty against the advanoe of the British in 1815, Two that we happened to meet we know felt the old soldicrly spirit come back | when the “ear-piercing fife’ sounded on the strect. ‘These two were Mesurs. Joseph St. Cyr and Charles Raymond. Mr. St. Cyr is eighty-two years of ago, and belonged to the rifle company of the Battalion dOrlear®, which was commanded on the memorable eth ot January by Major Plauche. He is still an ace tive maa and moves about with ail the elasticity of youth, Mr. Rayznond is eighty-five, and was a member of | the same battalion in the battic of Chalmette. Full of vigor end weil preserved strength, he, like his fellow veterans, looks twenty years younger than he is, Both, strange to say, enjoy the companionship of wives they married sixty years ago. It was inter- esting, yesterday, to listen to their story of the bat- tle, to note how the eye would sparkle and the chest heave as they recounted the fighting of that day, Plauche’s command was on the ght, they | raid, and had for its protection only a low breastwor of carth. Inthe embrasures for the cannon there wero two or three bales of cotton, but none in the breastworks. Tho battle was hot'from the time the Inst gun was fired until the redcoats withdrew from the fleld. Plauebe's command, Mr. Raymond saya, wae composed of a rifle company, one ot dragoons, the bluce of Captain Maunsel White, the Le franca and the chasseurs, Of the whole command but six are now alive, and they are ©. Raymond, J. St. Cyr, Ly he cS dean Gervais, Jean Larmothe and PA Lapice. ‘he occasion which brought about the meeting With these tried veterans was to congratulate ther on o new lease of Ife they had just received. For some years they were almost blina from cata- ract of the vye and could barely tell daylight from darkness. The skilful hand and knife of a cele- Drated oculist opencd the portals of vision thore vid soldiers, and thay seo again, Thecnre must been wonderful, for nature at cignty-five years ly but little vital force of gevivification lett. Both were happy over the yift of & wense of whtich they wore 40 | Jong bereft. During the long conversation Messrs. St. Cyr and Raymond gave many incidents of the ath of January, which have not space to publish, We left them looking as happy and contented as young lovers. PETRIF 2 IED STOVEWOOD. {From the Georgetown (Col.) Miner.) Captain William Jones, who has been over to Cari* bou, brought back with him « remarkable natural curiosity. It is a section of stovewood sawed from a tree about nine inches in diameter. In splitting it Captain Jones disclosed a pine cone, imbedded in the wood, which, by the pressure of the annual growth of the wood, is #s hard as adamant, and which re- tains its natural purple color, — It avas evidently one of the topmost cones when the tree was very young. The stem of the cone was caught by about the sixth annual growth, and the rings of the wood show that it gradually enveloped, and bad boen finally hidden for over six years before tho axe of the woodman ave it a chanco for resurrection, J MARCH 8, 1879,-TRIPLE THE ELECTORAL COUMT. Majotity Report ofthe Potter Committee. THE LOUISIANA .AND FLORIDA VOTB Frauds by Which the Will of the People Was Defeated, ° FORGED ELECTORAL CERTIFICATES. + A Fraudulent, Outrageous and Desperate * Returning Board. ie VISITING STATESMEN CONDEMNED. Tilden and Hendricks the Choice of the People, Wasuinaton, Feb, 2, 1879, On Saturday Mr. Potter, the Chairman of tho In- vestigating Committee, submitted the report which he had prepared to the committee, and it was adopted by the vote of 6 democrats to 3 republicans, General Butler being absent. The three republicans pres- ent—Messrs. Hiscock, Cox and Reed—will prepare a minority report, and Geueral Butler will draw up @ separate statomegt, giving his views in reference to tho ° bargain with tho Hayes party by which tha democrats recovered tho States of South Carolina and Louisiana. Mr. Stenger, democratic member of the committee, who wagchairman of the sub-committee in Louisiana, will not present a separate report, but will add an expression of his own views upon certain points in the testimony to Mr. Potter's report. The repub- lican members of the committee have declined to make any part of their report public until after the meeting of the committee to-morrow morning. THE MAJORITY REPORT. Mr. Potter’s report is necessarily long, as it deal with all the points that have been before the com- mittee, except the cipher despatches, which will be made the subject of a separate report and will be presented to the committee to-morrow. Mr. Potter’s report is regarded by the democrats who have perused it as singularly impartial and judicial. It is entirely devoid both of rhetorical orna- mentation and vituperative denunciation, and derives its force solely from close logical de- ductions of the facts presented to the com- mittee. Some of the democrats regard it as wanting in color or not so strongly expressed as the facts warrant, and it is not unlikely that some members of the committee belonging to the party will present an additional expression of their views moro vigor ously. ‘Mr. Potter’s report opens with an introduction which sets forth what it was propep for Congress to investigate and what not, and the difficulty of con- ducting an investigation into conspiraciés which have been successfully carried out while the successful party remain in powd. It admits the confessions of conspirators who have become dissatisficd is worth little, but points to the fact not generally understood that about the essential features of the election and canvass in Florida and Louisiana there is no substantial dispute before the committce, the republicans having called no wituesses in Florida and few in Louisiana, except as to the condact of the visiting statesmen and i dentally about intimidation. It dismisses entirely the testimony-of Anderson, Jenks, Mrs. Jenks, Weber aud that class of witrfesses, and deals with the ease upon the general and controlling facts one. The report is divided into three parts, the firet of which hee to Florida, the second to Louisiana and the third4o the forged electoral certificate. THY, FLORIDA VOTE. inning with Florida it cites the law directing th ‘residential clectors to be appointed by the votes cast, and the Canvassing Hoard to canvass the nd claims that the Tilden electors, received a majority of the votes State, were thereby necessarily entitled to be declared elected, and that the Canvassing Board by rejecting, without warrant of law, a portion of the votes, so as to show the ma- jority for Hayes, unlawfully counted Tilden ont. It es that the canvassers delayed their announce- ment until the morning of the day the electors were to mevt and vote, so that, althodgh action was in- | stantly taken to oust the Hayes electors, no decision could’ be bad uutil the Hayes electors had met that same day at noon and voted. The report then recites the judgment of the Supreme Court, which subsequently decided that the Hayes electors were not elected nor entitled to cast the vote ot the State and that the Tilden clectors were, and also the judgment of the @ourt in the action brought by Drew, the democratic candidate for Governor, to obtain a recanyass where the Court directed a recan- vass and decided that the canyassers, in. retusin to count the yotes cast, had defranded Drew | unlawfully seated Steans, the republican, The Legis: | lature of the State thereupon directed a | anyass of the electoral yote in accordance with this cision of the Supreme Court, the judges of which were re- publicans, and the recanvass showed the Tilden eiec- tors chosen, ‘The Governor then issted his certifi- cate to the Tilden electors as the true electors, but the Electoral Commission refused to consider the igment of the Court, the action of the Legislature the certificate given by the Governor in favor iden electors, and held that it could pot take notice of any action by the State after the 6th of De- comber. AN OPEN DOOR Yor rnavp. The report draws attention to the tact that suc! sh be repeated in any State at avy Presi- jection by the cauvassers withbolding the ment of the result of the election until the ‘or the meeting of the Electoral Collego and then declaring persons who had ne been voted for sctors, when, according to this decision, such electors would be entitled irrevocably to cast the vote ot the State. It . therefore recommends a law providing that where there was dispute as to who were the real electors of any State, the judgment of its court of resort, if certified to Congress before the meeting of the two houses of css to reveive and count the electoral vote, shall be conclusive as to the right of the disputing electors, and of which vote from the State shall be connted unless the two houses of Congress shall otherwise agree. ‘The report then argues that the action of the can- voasing boards was not only illegal and frandulent, and cites the instance in which they rejected demo- cratic votes on unwarrented grounds and refused to reject fraudulent republican votes, as illustrating . It deals at length with the claims of the re- licans, that they were entitled to the te of the State on the of the returns reason of the ‘Drigger frand by which a bogus return from Baker county was fur- shed the Canvassing Board which they at first re- jected, but which, after they were ordered to count the vote as cast, they fraudulently took in place of the return, It then deals with the conduct of the visiting statesmen, and particularly that of Mr. Noyes as contrasted with that of General Francis ©. Barlow, whose fidelity to all his obligations, and integrity, independence, fairness and truth the report espo- cially commends, THY LOUISIANA CARE, In regard to Louisiana the report begins with a reference to the anomalous power possessed by the Returning Board, which it says never before existed eisowhere, Under it the electors and the returaing officers held, in the exercise of the west power, the recviving and counting of votes. Under tho pre- text that the color line divided the political partics they had used this power to fraudulently count the face State “tor the republicans, and m ex. posol by the republican’ committee of — the Worty-third Congress, which had repogted that the whites and blacks of the State being efmal and some ot the blacks and all the whites having voted for the democrats in 1874 the State had necombarily been car- ried by them, although counted for the republicans. Hereupon the republicans set about a falve census, in which they made it appear that there were 25,000 more black voters in the State than whites, and illustrating the fraudulent natare of this consus the report refers to the fact that while this census reported but 57,000 colored men, women and children in New Orleans it made out of the nearly twenty-five thousand voters of these. It then instances the frandulent registration that was based upon this traudulont census, whereby it was made to appear that the registered republican voters ex- ceeded the white voters in the State niore than tweuty-three thousand, while actually there were no more, and the retasal of the authorities to corre this false registration in cases where its false- “4 wis pointed out. From this the report the direction by the republican aurhorities to the supervisors of parishes, requiring them to re- the votes according to th: natis, that is, stag at the colored ensus in th perishes were so mi {were exper to return & republican vote according to that, if they ever expected any reward or preferment. —Not- withstanding this organized franu, says tho eeport, when the clections were over the democrats had 4 SHEET. majority, as returned by the republican election officers, of some ten thousand, the vote polled being the largest ever polled in the State, and larger in pro- portion to the population than that of other States. HOW A MAJORITY WAS OVERCOME. The republican officers made returns of the vote accordingly, and declared that the election was per- fectly peaceful and fair. ‘The republicans, in order to overcome this majority, usirped powers not given to them. In support of this the report cites the finding of the Hoer, Wheeler end Fry Com- mittee that the Returning Board had no power to discard votes where protests, as required by law, had not accompanied the returns, no instance of which existed at this elee- tion. Notwithsteuding this the Returning Board de- cided to discard the necessary number of democratic votes. AS a pretext for this usurpation they obtained protests from certain parishes, which they picked out as the parishes im which to pretend intimidation had taken place. These parishes were all largely of Ree poplars which the democrats had fairly carried, ‘The report thea deals with the question of intimi- dation and argues that it was impossible for the democrats to gain anything by it because the Re- turning Bord had beon created on purpose to nen- tralize any such action by throwing out yotes in localities where it should prevail. It recites the out- Tageous conduct of the same Returning Bosrd in that respect in 174, and how its action had beeen condoned by the Forty-third Congress, giving in- stances where they had counted in officia!s without @ color of right—men whom the Congressional conmit- tee bad caused to beturned out and their places given to democrats, the democrats knowing that not only they in nothing by intimidation, but that they hope for some show of justice by avoiding anything which might be made a pre- tense for atleging it. . ‘port then recites the efforts that were made hont the State to the democrats to conciliate the black vote, showing by the evidence of repubii- can witnesses eas well as by the testimony of gentle- men of character, ike Governor Whitfield, how the planters combined with the negroes to get up clubs of both colors, and reterred to the promives and as- suraness made to the negroes, even to eqnality in cars, theitres, &c., far outruuning the* republicans. The leaders having foined the democrats the whole negro’s camo in and became qitite en- supporters, and thus the vote in some of the so-called bulldozed parishes was the very largest ever cast, THE FELICIANA PARISHES. As to the conspiracy in East Feliciana parish, the report states that after the democrats had conciliated the negroes there, Kellogg wanted Anderson, who was the supervisor, to have no election, and Ander- son fraudulently ran away with that view to furnish an exense for throwing the parish ont, as Grand parish was thrown out becanse the supervisor of registration, absenting himrelf on election day, notwithstanding the other officer ieid the election and made one return of the vote. ‘The democrats in East Feliciana, knowing that they had captured the negro vote, hired Anderson to go back aud hold the election. The republicans then hi pee anew plon and directed their friends in the parixh not to vote, so 4s to pretend intimidation and exclude the parish. They sent out word to their followers not to come eto the lis, re- fused to permit any tickets to be printed or circulated, and exercised their influence to withbold their own vote entirely. Eighteen hundred reg- istered votes were cast, and 450 more which Ander- n had prevented from being registered, made about two thousand three hundred votes cast, all democratic, but not one republican would vote, though urged to do 80. The whole vote of the parish at previous elections, both sides, not exceeded two thousand five hundred. The repubiteans, who purposely witbheld casting any vote at all, aubso- quently made a ciaim that they had been intimidated and could not vote, and the Returning Board on this pretext, peercasty prearranged, excluded the vote of the parish, The report then refers to the supplementary papers obtained from Anderson and Dan Weber, both of whom were known by the republicans to be for sale; that after these supervisors ‘had made retaras that there was no violence in their parishes they were induced to make supplementary protests, and that they. both confessed they did this becattse of re- ward. In other parishes, where officers had seen and certified to a perfectly fair cloction, Kellogg by pressure exacted like false protests. i MANUFACTURING TESTIMONY. ‘The report then goes on to state how the Return- ing Board, having got possession of such unlawful protests, proceed to take evidence, United States officers and money being used to bring igndrant negroes from the interior fields into a great city, where they were herded together, taken before officials and had affidavits written down for them, to which, upon making their marks, they received their fees and ‘were sent home. The process of manufacturing these affidavits is set forth to show how the negroes were imposed upon and how worthless the affidavits were. As illustrative of how utterly reckless the Returning Board wag in Sones evidence, it points out that in Exst Feliciana only twenty-six \OSSCS to any kind disturbance could bo collected. The disturbances to which they testified had arisen from cotton seed and other thefts by negroea, and their suppression, which had been conducted by leading repub- had nothing to do with politics, and wh this ond the tact that the election was entirely. peaceable, and the republicuns pur- posely refused to vote was shown by 1,290 witnesses, and although four-fifths of the negroes fn the parish actually aid vote with the democrats, the Returning Board threw out the whole vote. ‘The report points out a great many other in- stances of what it styles the iraudulent, out and desperate character of the Returning Bo: shows the impossibility of their considering the tes- timony before them, #8 they had more than could be read by a man reading ten hours a day for two weeks when they went into consultation, and how. the next day their intended decision was known, and indeed never had been in doubt, everything con- nected with them being a travesty on justice, and showing how absolutely abandoned and unscrupu lous they were, ACTION OF THE VISITING STATESMEN. The report states that the Returning Board would never havo so outraged the people but for their en- couragenent from the visiting statesmen and the support which they and the troops gave them. Then follow details how some of the visitors were deceived by local managers and innocently co-operated in the frands of the Returning Board, while others did not. It refers very briefly to the alleged bargain by which Hayes, who had 2,000 votes less than Packard, got counted in, while Packard went ont, and mentions Mr. Sherman's offer to prove intimidation, but points out that whenever the committee offered to receive it the evidence was not produced and they were met by some sham excuse for not producing it; how they had examined many of the witnesses that wero before the Returnin, Board who in aimost every instance recanted, and oxplaincd how they came to inake their false afiidayit in the first placo and how such statements as they made before tho Returning Board were totaily unfounded. THY, SUERMAN LETTER. It then refers to the Sherman letter, in regard to which it simply states the facts as they stand, show: iny that the letter was actually written and larg influenced political action in Louisiana, whoever signed it, and drawing attention to the atte the interest of Mr. Sherman, by Mrs. Jenks, whose husband and brother are employés of the Treasury Department,.to induce the committee to produce a forge letter. ‘Tho Florida portion of the report is followed by a list of all the persons connected with the election there who hove been appointed to office, and tho Lonisiana portion by a still longer list of the pereons in that State appointed to office. THE VOUGED ELECTORAL CERTIFICATE. ‘The third part of the report deals with the forzed Electoral certificate. It states that the Vice Presi- dont having refused the first certificate, the republi- of cans sceretly manufactured another, antedating it, and mado it in paper and ‘printing to resomblo the one iousty made, Now, prey! having very little time to prepare it, and it being impossible to get all the electors to Ner Orleans to sign it within that time, it became a neccs- sity to forge the signatures of two absentees; that thus there were put to the triplicate papors 18 forged signatures, which were attached on December 2, in a email upper room in the State building, then in charge of H, Conquest Clarke. How the making of this second certificate was concealed until it was produced before Congress; when it was referred to the Flectoral Commis- sion it was not read, but ¢ ordered to printed, and the printer was changed the Electoral Commission were served with two printed copies ot the forged certificate, perfect in fory, and no covy of the genuine but detective cer- titleate; how, after the commission had decided, the record of the commissiom was changed so that the forged certificate, copies of which were really before the | commission, was suppressed and the record made to show as if the genuine defective certificate had been consideted and passed upon. This was not accident but design, not only in one ot the published records of the proceedings of the Klectoral Commission bat in both, althongh made months apart; how the republican managers wore informed by Kellogg that there was omething wrong about the second certificate, and how all the way through there lies a thread of design to impose the forged certisicete upon Congress, and then to suppress it so that if dtecovored the record might show as if it had never been produced. The burlesqne (John Smith) certificate sent from Loulsiana by mail after the forged certificate and suppress from the records, and which cannot now be found, it regards as part of the seme fraud, its object being to nnalead and draw off attention from the torged certificate, REWARD OF FORGERY. The report then reeites how-all the persons con- neeted with the forgery have been appointed to office, and the suspicious © instances connected with the appointment of some; particularly charges that Kellogg and Clark, his private secretary, were privy to the forgeries. “Che report winds np with a reference to the dan- ger of returning boards, and the greater danger of controlling elections and protecting canvassing boards by federal troops, and above all, to the crown- ing danger with which the country is threatened by of the enormous patronage centered in the cy, which makes the Presidental office a great that inf order to control it the grorsest js and violations of the law may be expected on part of thore who desire to profit by that It concludes with the finding that the ot given to the electoral yotes of Louisiana; that Noyes, Sherman encouraged — this result; that reuso: others and the second certificate from Loutsiana was forged as to two of its names, Kellogg and Clark being privy to it, and that Tilden and Hendricks recatved a trae majority of the electoral vote and wero the real choice of the people of tho United States at the last Presidential ob mM. COCK FIGHTING, THE FIRST DEFEAT THAT NEW YORE CITY FAd MET THIS SEASON—THE BEST SIGHTING SEEN THIS WINTER. A quiet, orderly gathering took place in the towa of Newtown to witness a main of cocks between New York city aud Long Island one evening last wee ly The following is a summary of the fighting in the main, one of the hottest contested and best fought of the season, 1878-97— FIRST BATTLE. New York having won the choice, selected thelight weights for this fight, the scales calling each at 3 Ibs, 14 0z., and delivered a black hackled black-red'to a spangled pyle from the Nussau side of the pit. Sev- eral new faces were in the throng, and eagerly put up their money on the battle at 3 to 2 on the pyle, till the judge announce? :—Por the benefit of those who are not aware of the chinge in the rutes, I will say, before any bets are bound, that a dead cock cannot possibly wina battle. Dead cocks and run- aways ure ordered ont of the pit and the remain- ing cock wins.” A warm dissent was expressed by the old hands who made their appearance for the first time during the season, but they quickly agreed. to thechange and everything was quiet from that moment out. The birds let go made a careful survey of each other's point for a second, the pyle making the attack immediately after. ‘Tue black took the assault easily and seemed slow, till fecling the steel, it showed its readiness, and, by its superior quick+ ness, laid the pyle’s throat open, The odds in betting jumped to 5 to 2on the black, but. the first assault had been #0 severe that it began to droop, and the condition of the pyle was so good that, despite its throat, held its strength long enough to take ad- vantage of the drooping blackie, and, burying its heel in the latter's head, laid it dead on thecarpet, thus winuing the first battl, for Long Island. ‘Time, 1m, 403, SECOND BATTLE. The betting on the main at the close of the lust fight stood even, offers being freely made of $25 or $50 on Long Isiand, one or two only of which were taken. The heavy weights were next delivered at 5 lbs. 2 0z., New York showing a red backed pyle, broad breasted but with a poor tail, to a black breasted gray from Long Island. Tho latter had no supporters when placed, so thet it was difficult to invest one cent of money on this fight. ‘They both were ready, and made quick, fair exehanges, till after afew flys the gray got the steel in its thigh and was lamed. The effect of the blow was that after cvery hit the gray made it next stood still just jong enough to allow the pyle two shots for its one. Finally, as it lay at ratch, the pyle crossed over and killed it as it ed on the carpet, the shot sending it flopping over and over inthe air till dead. ‘Cime, 3m. 52s, ‘The battles were thns even on the main, the score being—Long Island 1, New York 1. THIRD BATTLE. Betting on the main at even rates was indulged in during the intermission, but New York deelined to give odds on the single battles, though at the last main they claimed them ali night, though winning. The birds for this 4vht at 4 lbs, 13 oz, were two browne reds—a gray hae%ue trom New York and a black hackle from Long Island. A rattling series of good ex- changes on the carpet marked their onset, the first buckle closing with the loss of an eye by the biack hack and a throat cut on the part of the gray heck, The betting then stood $10 to $4 in favor ot the black, going up steadily till it teachcd $10 to $1, as the biinker kept steadily to his work, every blow telling on its active though drooping ‘adversary, whose throat was emitting its life blood as it fought; at last dying, the latter lost the battle on the count. ‘Time, 4m, 44s. Long Island thus winning two battles to New York one, though its representative was tere ribly cut up. FOURTH BATTLE, The next weights were 3 lbs. 15 oz., at which New York showed @ half-Sherman yellow legged brown- red toa brown-henny from Long Island, thé latter being too low.statured for effective work. When deliverea, however, its activity seemed to predicate a victory, especially as it deprived the Sherman of an eye in’ the first or second fly. The fighting was quick, severe aud stubborn, though as it progressed the Sherman seemed to improve under his terrible punishment, while the henny seemed to quicken its stroke at the same time, as if to finish the battle be- fore Sherman got its secondewind. The latter, how- ever, snoseeded in burying its heal under the henay's wing, and when the biood from the wound flowed into its throat it stopped her, and, dying, she wes pounded and counted out. Time, 6m. 3s. This lett the main again even, with Long Islapd 2, New York 2. FIFTS BATTLE. New York next deliverod a bine bottomed singer to ared pyle from Long Isiand, both welghing 4 Ibs. Toz. They were both keen, heavy cutters, the pyo the readiest fighter. ‘he blue bottom, tho slower, devoted its attention to the body of the pyle, op which it left an incurable impression, besides cute ting the fight out of it, as the pyle stopped. The odds, which Iay at 5to2 on it, changed to 3 to2om the bine bottom and were taken freely. The pyle rallied sufficiently to give a finishing tonch, laying its opponent dead and almost dying over it. Time, 2m. 5s. The New York boys were almost as blue ag their bira as they handed over the results of their betting, and the main stood—Long Island 3, New York 2. The fighting on cach side had been so good that betting on the main was still even. SIXTH BATTLE, A very toujh, severe fight between two black reds— a dark hackie at 41bs. 8 0z., from New York, and a ginger hackle at 4 Ibs. 7 0z., from Long Island. When delivered they began at close quarters, the slashing on both sides being brilhant for two or three minutes, fill a brain blow stunned’ the Long Islander, and New York, brightening up, did such execution that the former wag pounded and counted out. Time, 5m. 363s. When sealed the winner just evenly balanced the weights at 4 lbs. 9 0z., and Long Island claimed the fight on the ground that even balance at 902. made the bird over weight—trom 4 lbs. 8 oz, give and take an ounce. The jndge de- cided otherwise—that ‘the scale must be decidedly turned at an ounce above to be over weight—so be gave the battle to the dark hackle, and ordered bets paid. This lett the figures on the main again even—Long Island ow York SEVENTH BATTII New York delivered a blue muff pyle at 4 Ibs. 140%, to # black-red from Long Ixiand at 4 ibs. 15 oz. bape di made a good opening; the pyle gained a slight ad- vantage from the low heeling of the black, the points of the latter catching several tines in the carpet. ‘The odds, however, were returned by the extreme ness of the pyle wearing it out, and fears were expressed by its backers that “tit was‘ too ready to win,” till the black was struck crazy and partially crippled. It was then pounded, and the fight dragged on one side till the pyle killed the black. Time, 16m. 11s, For the first time New York was ahead on the main, the store being Long Island 3, New Yorig 4, and the Manhattanites were correspondingly jue Dilant, though still betting even on the result. Z FIGHTH BATTLE New York placed their chances of winning thie fight on the qualities of a flue looking black-red at 4 ibs. 90%. to which Loug Isiand opposed a biack-gray at 41bs. 10 02., the odds being 5 to 4 in favor of New York in spite ofthe ounce in weight against it. Considerable amusement was created before these birds were delivered and after by the entire assem- blage catching up an expression “That's fair," which bad been used by one of the New York boys all the evening, and as one or the other of the fowls seemed to gain the advantage of the fight ‘That's fair” raised a laugh and the simple. interpolation into the odds of betting proved quite a diversion up to the conclusion of the mein. The,birds for this battle opened the combat well, the gray fighting furiously till it lost an eye, and then it slackenea and com- menced wheeling. The black followed it up closely, bringing it to home quarters about every other wheel tll the former began to straddle, when the eray ceased wheeling, and, after a few even fies, completety coupled the biack and won the fight. Time, 7m. 358, The score on the main was again even--Long Island 4, New York 4. Now York came up gayly with a brown-red muff at 4 ibs. 10 07., to meet a Long Island pyle at 4 Ibs. 9 oz, When delivered the birds danced fora second or two, till the mu, tired of courtesy, closed in, aud the pyle not answering, logt an eye. The brown did not fol- low up its advantage closely, so that the pyle by adopting wheeling and turning tactics, took tho whip hand of the fight till it lost the second eye im exchange for one of the muf’s, Even then the fight was hard and bitter, and the pyle might have wow but for its bitndness, it being the stronger and bot- ter hitter up to the moment of its receiving the cmp de grics, ® chance shot from the muff laying it out wry-neckod. Time, ldm. 13s, The victory ing New York ahead and jubilant with a score of 6 to Long Island's 4, The Gothamites then carefully ‘and sparingly offered $100 to $9) on the main, but were #o eagerly taken up that they “stopped and were nige gardly in making even bets without odds. TENTH BATTLE. A blue-red at 4 Ibs. 14.0%. was the next representa. tive trom the metropolis, while Long Island rested the issue on o bivek-red at 4 Ibs. 15 02, Delivered, they indulged in a hard wing fight for some time till, tired, they resorted to their heels and the cutting was so wevere that they brought each other down, and the battle rested with the handlers. Firat one snd then the other got the count, till it remained with Long Isiand untilit run out, Time, 19m, 588. And the sore of battles being even, the excitement was intense, Long Island having 5 and New York 6, The betting now became lively; the odds betng varions, losers were anxious to recover their losses and winners to double their spoil, so that mnch money was invested before tho birds for the final fight were shown. VENTH BATTER. Aw brass back at 4 Ibs. 7 om, ® New York doliv Tong Istand res ling with a gray at 4 ibs. 6 om ‘The brasaie wax siow in his opening, and though he was a timble fighter his backwardness at the first dow feated him. He did some excellent work atter he be» an, but jt availed him nothing, The odds got ag igh as $100 to $5 against him, he at tho sane time showing his abflity to do good execution with bie heels; in tnet, the gray Was giving way a trifle, but by aclovor rise atruck the braasie undet the butt of the oar, and it lay down a dead cock. Time, 4m. 508, Thus giving Long fsland the main score of 6 battles to 5 for New York, and thus was ‘York de- teated for the first time this season,